the state of Indiana executed Alan Matheney, a man who bludgeoned his ex-wife to death while on temporary leave from prison, where he was serving a sentence for nearly killing her.

Indonesian authorities postponed the scheduled execution of two brothers on death row for a premeditated triple murder.

saudi authorities executed a Saudi national for killing a compatriot by shooting him after running over him with his car.

the state of Ohio executed Herman Ashworth, a 32-year-old man who admitted killing another man in a $40 robbery and had waived most of his appeals, saying he deserved to die.

European officials said that Poland would be in clear breach of its international commitments if the winners of the parliamentary elections were to reintroduce the death penalty.

a Cairo court sentenced two gang leaders to death and 58 defendants to prison terms varying between three years to life for involvement in kidnappings and violence in 2004 in Nakhilah, about 320km south of Cairo.

Saudi authorities executed a Saudi national for killing a man by running over him with his car.

Saudi Arabia executed two Saudi men convicted in separate cases of murder, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

an Iranian man convicted of drug trafficking was hanged in the northern city of Sari, in Iran’s Mazandaran province, the Kayhan daily reported.

a young man was publicly hanged at a riverside in the Iranian town of Kashan, south of the capital, the country’s state-run news agency reported.

the Constitutional Court of Moldova approved two draft laws concerning amendments to Article 24 Paragraph 3 of the constitution and providing for the abolition of the death penalty.

John W. Peoples Jr., a man convicted of killing a family of three and driving off in their vintage sports car, was executed by lethal injection.